Poe2 killed my GPU

Good idea to add limits where you can for graphics.

FPS limit, power consumtion limit, whatever you can.

When i first booted up Crash 4 it for some reason sent my entire system in overdrive, 400fps in the freaking loading screen, fans on max and intense coil-whine... For a freaking loading screen.

Resolved by adding fps cap. Still after that event my gpu seemed more susceptible for whine. So i had to reduce it's power target.

Does mean i get less fps out of it but hey, system is largely silent now.

To everyone saying my GPU was broken since I got it: I played the Game for a week on my New System without any issues till it crashed and my GPU broke. And since it was the Holidays im pretty sure at least 100 hours if not more.

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Bohnensuppe#6778 wrote:

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Urza_Mechwalker#7393 wrote:

A game cannot do anything to break a GPU except to demand a lot from it. Demanding a lot can overheat and any lingerign problem may be drastically accelerated.



People.. just enable VSync.. and stop letting your GPUs work like mad maniacs for nothing

Exactly this! No game can damage your hardware directly.

That is infact wrong.

Could also be a bad connection somewhere.

Was posts a while back about cards catching fire. Turns out the power cord wasn't pushed in place properly.

Though in their defence, those cords are fucking awful to fit in place.

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TerenceSkilll#1115 wrote:

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Bohnensuppe#6778 wrote:

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Urza_Mechwalker#7393 wrote:

A game cannot do anything to break a GPU except to demand a lot from it. Demanding a lot can overheat and any lingerign problem may be drastically accelerated.



People.. just enable VSync.. and stop letting your GPUs work like mad maniacs for nothing

Exactly this! No game can damage your hardware directly.

That is infact wrong.

It's 100% correct.

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TerenceSkilll#1115 wrote:

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Bohnensuppe#6778 wrote:

Exactly this! No game can damage your hardware directly.

That is infact wrong.

GPUs have in-build security measures. So the worst thing that can happen is, that your PC crashes/freezes when GPU exceeds a certain performance limit. A game is not able to work around those security measures. And if fact, GPUs are designed to work at 100% performance and games can only draw out 98% of that. So if a GPU dies because of a game that requires alot of GPU performance, it's not the games fault.

Like many others said here: The GPU had very likely problems before and PoE2 as a very demanding game just pushed the GPU over the edge. If OP had played Cyberpunkt 2077 for a week, the GPU would have also died.

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IshikawaSenju#7954 wrote:

To everyone saying my GPU was broken since I got it: I played the Game for a week on my New System without any issues till it crashed and my GPU broke. And since it was the Holidays im pretty sure at least 100 hours if not more.

That doesn't mean anything. To me it sounds like your GPU hat problems cooling down. And when that happens, your GPU is frying itself slowly. So if you constantly played PoE2 in that week, it got damaged more and more, until reaching a point of no return. But like I said above, the same would have happened with any other demanding game.

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AceNightfire#0980 wrote:

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IshikawaSenju#7954 wrote:

To everyone saying my GPU was broken since I got it: I played the Game for a week on my New System without any issues till it crashed and my GPU broke. And since it was the Holidays im pretty sure at least 100 hours if not more.

That doesn't mean anything. To me it sounds like your GPU hat problems cooling down. And when that happens, your GPU is frying itself slowly. So if you constantly played PoE2 in that week, it got damaged more and more, until reaching a point of no return. But like I said above, the same would have happened with any other demanding game.

Graphic cards have built in overheating security systems, so when gpu gets too hot it simply lowers the clocks.
If temp gets over the limit it simply restarts the system.
Fact is OP didnt mention what his gpu is\was.

In fact i had only one gpu that have burnt and it was radeon rx 580, but i knew it's going to die because of artifacts that it sometimes generated.

And i have crashes too sometimes(not much, but still) and screen goes all green for me too.

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boowa86#1517 wrote:

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AceNightfire#0980 wrote:

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IshikawaSenju#7954 wrote:

To everyone saying my GPU was broken since I got it: I played the Game for a week on my New System without any issues till it crashed and my GPU broke. And since it was the Holidays im pretty sure at least 100 hours if not more.

That doesn't mean anything. To me it sounds like your GPU hat problems cooling down. And when that happens, your GPU is frying itself slowly. So if you constantly played PoE2 in that week, it got damaged more and more, until reaching a point of no return. But like I said above, the same would have happened with any other demanding game.

Graphic cards have built in overheating security systems, so when gpu gets too hot it simply lowers the clocks.
If temp gets over the limit it simply restarts the system.
Fact is OP didnt mention what his gpu is\was.

In fact i had only one gpu that have burnt and it was radeon rx 580, but i knew it's going to die because of artifacts that it sometimes generated.

Yeah, but if the GPU doesn't measure the temperature correctly, it can lead to melt downs. Furthermore, we don't know if OP overclocked his GPU, which ofc can lead to destroyed GPUs.

That's why I think the GPU had problems with cooling down. Maybe I should've said measure temperature correctly and then cool down.

There could be a lot of reasons. It could be even too weak power supply( or some no name sh*t)
I've never bought a PC that i haven't built myself.
Those shops can't be trusted.